- Keswick, South Norfolk
Keswick is a
village andcivil parish in the Englishcounty ofNorfolk , situated some 3 miles (4.8 km) to the south of the city ofNorwich . It should not be mistaken for the coastal settlement of Keswick (near Bacton), which is also in Norfolk.ref|osexplThe civil parish has an area of 5.52 km² and in the 2001 census had a population of 431 in 248 households. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of
South Norfolk .ref|osnnccThe church of Keswick All Saints is one of 124 existing
round-tower church es inNorfolk . There was a small early church here, but it was demolished c 1598 to use the materials to repairIntwood ’sround-tower church , when the two parishes were consolidated. The original east wall of thechancel still stands to the east of the existing church, and part of the tower could also be Saxon, although it was much repaired in 1893. At that time the shortnave was added to the tower to make a mortuarychapel . In 1934 church services were authorised, but theapse was not added until some decades later.References
# Ordnance Survey (1999). "OS Explorer Map 237 - Norwich". ISBN 0-319-21868-6.
# Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). " [http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/general_resources/ncc017867.xls Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes] ". RetrievedDecember 2 ,2005 .
# "The Round Tower Churches of Norfolk" by Lyn Stilgoe, illustrated by Dorothy Shreeve, 2001, Canterbury Press, Norwich; ISBN 1-85311-448-0External links
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* [http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/k/keswick/ Information from Genuki Norfolk] on Keswick.
* [http://www.roundtowerchurches.de/Karte/C5/Keswick_All_Saints/keswick_all_saints.html Website with photos of Keswick All Saints] , around-tower church
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